The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ...

Almost all fossil remains of megalodon are teeth. Sharks continually produce teeth throughout their entire lives. Depending on what they eat, sharks lose a set of teeth every one to two weeks, getting ...

Almost all fossil remains of megalodon are teeth. Sharks continually produce teeth throughout their entire lives. Depending on what they eat, sharks lose a set of teeth every one to two weeks, getting ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ...

such as whales and other sharks. Its serrated, blade-like teeth were ideal for such hunting, and evidence of megalodon’s predatory behavior is abundant in the fossil record. However, fossils of ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

These types of teeth are commonly found across the global ocean and shorelines where fossil ... of megalodon it belonged to. Previously, researchers uncovered another ancient shark tooth, which ...

Fossil remains, mainly of its teeth, have been found along the ... rise of competing smaller species like great white sharks, meant that megalodon “suddenly found itself backed into an ...

How big are the megalodon's teeth? Watch the ... one of the most common of all fossils. It's not surprising, really. They're big, they're hard and, like a modern shark, the megalodon would have ...

That's tens of millions of years older than the better known—and monstrously large—megalodon shark. Fossil hunters discovered the tooth "eroding" from a block of sandstone on the fossil-rich ...

Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s left, and they tell a story of an apex predator that vanished.